Re: Guitar neck slots ?

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:38:03 -0700 (PDT), vk3bfa@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 31, 9:03 pm, "Bruce Varley" <bxvar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Mar 31, 12:48 pm, "tdud...@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <tdud...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi ,
I have an odd question . I have an aluminum guitar neck that has been
cut for frets and
they cut the slots in the wrong place . The slots are quite shallow .
The neck was
later cut properly and has been fretted . I want to fill the empty
slots . Does anyone
have any tips as to how this could be repaired ?
Thanks for your time !
Tim

An aluminium guitar neck - what an abomination! - must be playing
"doof doof" or rap music on it. If the fret slots are in the wrong
place......chuck it, start again. Buy a wooden one for preference.
Nothing you do will fix it, there will be discontinuities between the
fill material and the rest of the neck......might be able to rework it
as a door stop, or a prop for the tailgate on a small truck.....

(Bloody hell - aluminium necks for guitars.......what has the world
come to......must be an American idea...)

Andrew VK3BFA.

Well, actually it's got some interesting aspects. Many guitars have a steel
truss rod in the neck anyway to stabilise it against string tension. A
totally metal neck could be even more stable. If you engineered the
coefficient of expansions right, you could have an instrument that stayed in
tune through the entire gig, that would be something.

Beyond aluminium.... titanium?

well, yes, its an interesting idea - steel string guitars have aways
had truss rods, but their still wood - the fretboard is usually
something nice your fingers like gliding over...but thats me, still
stuck in 1972...(and I still have my steel string Maton, neck hasn't
warped even after 20+ years...) - it doesn't go out of tune if you pre-
tension the strings, besides, the modern electronic guitar tuner is a
WONDERFUL invention - so fast and easy to use, and accurate - for the
first time in history, a rock band could (and sometimes did) play in
tune.....

As for metalwork - Leo Fender was, I think, the person who introduced
modern precision machining methods to making guitars, specifically
setting up fret positions - no loony out of it luthiers making silly
mistakes - but he used WOOD for his necks. There was a fibreglass/
plastic(?) body guitar (Ovation?) - never got a chance to play on
tho, no idea what it sounded like.

Andrew VK3BFA.


Somebody, Goldtone?, makes carbon fiber banjo necks. I would think
that an aluminum neck would make some funny sounds if you tried slides
or hammer-ons.
There was also a steel body guitar but I think it had a wood neck.




Bruce-in-Bangkok
(correct email address for reply)
.

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